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WorksheetsJOUR 101 Midterm Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 18mins
Which amendment of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of the press?
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Seventh Amendment
Name one of the impacts of media consolidation.
Less expensive advertising.
More diversity of opinion in news coverage.
More coverage of local news.
Less diversity of opinion in news coverage.
Stopping to ask critical questions, investigating the source of a claim in the mass media, examining other coverage of the same claim and finding the source of the original claim are the steps in the SIFT Method, a process created to promote and engrain ________________________________.
media convergence
freedom of the press
street smarts
Identify one reason why media companies consolidate or become conglomerates.
They want to hamper local news coverage.
They can manage resources more efficiently.
They have a plan for world domination.
They can be catalysts for creating shared meaning.
True or False: One result of media convergence is less coverage of national news.
True
False
In the United States, citizen groups that do not agree with the theme or content of a particular book may (a) it.
The first major U.S. magazine to appeal to women was:
Reader's Digest
Vogue
The Saturday Evening Post
Harper's Bazaar
Sensationalistic reports about crime and scandal were one of the key elements of what type of journalism?
Smut
Yellow
Investigative
Political
Identify the media ownership structure in which one company dominates an entire industry.
(a)
In the 1830s, Penny Presses began bringing news to the _________, which drove literacy rates up.
West Coast
East Coast
Midwest
Middle Class
True or False: Subjectivity is an ideal in American journalism.
True
False
True or False: Fewer than a dozen companies control nearly all of the mass media in the U.S.
True
False
Which of the following is not one of the criteria by which journalists evaluate whether information is newsworthy?
Conflict
Objectivity
Unusualness
Significance
_____________ refers to the merging of media technologies.
Cohabitation
Critical Thinking
Collaboration
Convergence
True or False: By becoming media literate, we can help shape the direction of the mass media and its role in culture and society.
True
False
Until 1911, what company was a monopoly?
AT&T
Paramount Pictures
MGM
Standard Oil
One way we can become more media literate is to:
Ignore the mass media completely.
Ask critical questions.
Consume as much media as you have time for.
Read books about media.
Independent companies that work outside of oligopolies are called:
(a)
Antitrust Laws benefit consumers because they:
Bust up oligopolistic industries.
Regulate the concentration of economic power and promote competition.
Promote monopolistic business practices.
Create opportunities for horizontal integration.
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward were reporters for what newspaper when they uncovered the Watergate Scandal?
The New York Times
The Los Angeles Times
The Washington Herald
The Washington Post
What do scholars consider to be the "earliest ancestor" to the modern book?
(a)
Apple's insourcing manufacturing of nearly all the components needed to build the iPhone is an example of:
Horizontal Integration
Vertical Integration
Monopolistic Competiton
Bogarting the supply chain
Ensuring elected officials uphold the duties of their oaths of office is one of the key roles of ______ in democracy.
Oligopolies
Effective Business
Law Enforcement
Journalism
True or False: Both the manual and steam-powered printing presses were invented in Germany.
True
False
Literacy grew tremendously by the mid-1800s, in part due to what?
The invention of the Model T.
The Revolutionary War.
The invention of the manual printing press.
The expansion of canals and railways in the U.S.
Oligopoly is a media ownership structure characterized by:
a few companies dominating an industry.
Parker Brothers adding a new board game to the marketplace.
many companies sharing control of an industry.
one company dominating an industry.
The magazine industry originated in what country in the early 1700s?
France
United States
Germany
Italy
__________ is one of the five core ethical values of journalism that help journalists promote democratic principles.
Cooperation
Subjectivity
Impartiality
Loyalty
Name the news value journalists use to engage audiences with news that's happening nearby.
Prominence
Significance
Timeliness
Proximity
True or False: Two quintessential mass mediums that debuted during the electronic area are television and radio.
True
False
